How to assign each element of a list to a separate variable? [duplicate]

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Generally speaking, it is not recommended to use that kind of programming for a large number of list elements / variables.

However, the following statement works fine and as expected

a,b,c = [1,2,3]

This is called “destructuring” or “unpacking”.

It could save you some lines of code in some cases, e.g. I have a,b,c as integers and want their string values as sa,sb,sc:

sa, sb,sc = [str(e) for e in [a,b,c]]

or, even better

sa, sb,sc = map(str, (a,b,c) )

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